Ms. Barbara T. Bowman
President
Erikson Institute
Ms. Valerie Jarrett
Executive Vice President
The Habitat Company
*Dr. Quentin Young Chair Health and Medicine Policy Research Group
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The Obama/Ayers/Dohrn gathering
In 1995, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, at a gathering in the Hyde Park home of former Weather Underground terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.
“I can remember being one of a small group of people who came to Bill Ayers’ house to learn that Alice Palmer was stepping down from the senate and running for Congress,” said Dr. Quentin Young, of the informal gathering at the home of Ayers and his wife, Dohrn. “[Palmer] identified [Obama] as her successor.” Barack Obama and Alice Palmer “were both there,” he said.
Quentin Young described Obama and Ayers as “friends[30].”
https://www.keywiki.org/Quentin_Young
https://www.keywiki.org/Valerie_B._Jarrett
Valerie Jarrett was born in Shiraz, Iran to American parents, James E. Bowman and Barbara Taylor Bowman. She spent the first five years of her life in Iran before her family moved to London. Following a year in London, the family moved to Chicago’s elite neighborhood, Hyde Park.
In 1983 she married Dr. William Robert Jarrett, son of famed Chicago Sun-Times reporter Vernon Jarrett, and his wife Fern Jarrett. They were divorced in 1988 and William Jarrett died in 1993.
The Jarretts and the Bowmans were family friends.
Vernon Jarrett was a one time political associate of Communist Party USA activist and Obama mentor Frank Marshall Davis.
Valerie Jarrett is the great niece of prominent Democratic Party leftist Vernon Jordan.
Her maternal grandfather was Robert Taylor, the first black chairman of the Chicago Housing Authority.